When Larts Anulfsen was born in 1746, in Nore og Uvdal, Buskerud, Norway, his father, Anulf Halvorsen, was 27 and his mother, Barbro Larsdotter, was 28. He married Live Stenersdtr. on 13 July 1772, in Nore og Uvdal, Buskerud, Norway. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 9 December 1831, in Norway, at the age of 85.